Topic 1

Question 1

When was the grand Alliance?

Answer 1

1941

Question 2

When was Tehran?

Answer 2

1943- November 28 to 1 Dec

Question 3

When was Yalta?

Answer 3

Feb 4 - 11 1945

Question 4

When was Potsdam?

Answer 4

July and August 1945

Question 5

When did the Germans retreat from Greece?

Answer 5

1944

Question 6

When were the British sent into Greece?

Answer 6

1945 to help Monarchists

Question 7

When was the war of Words?

Answer 7

March 1946

Question 8

When did Churchill give his Iron curtain speech?

Answer 8

1946

Question 9

What was the American telegram called?

Answer 9

Long 1946

Question 10

What was the USSR telegram?

Answer 10

Nokivoks 1946

Question 11

When was the Truman doctrine?

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

When was Marshall aid given?

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

What happened after Marshall plan?

Answer 13

1948 Paris conference USSR walk out

Question 14

How much money was dedicated to Marshall aid?

Answer 14

$13 bn

Question 15

How many countries accepted Marshall Aid?

Answer 15

16

Question 16

Who was the Yougoslavia leader?

Answer 16

Marshall Tito 1945 - Split from USSR in 1948

Question 17

Albani?

Answer 17

Accepted being a SS

Question 18

Baltic states?

Answer 18

Treated part of the USSR

Question 19

East Germany?

Answer 19

Declared as their own country in 1949, and in June 1953 there were major demonstrations against the country

Question 20

Bulgaria?

Answer 20

1944- LW and some Communists.

1945- Elections by intimidation

Question 21

Hungary?

Answer 21

1945 free elections

1947- Communists elected after intimidation elections

Question 22

Poland?

Answer 22

1945 - LW Communists.

1947- Poles from London killed or fled

Question 23

Romania?

Answer 23

1945- LW Communists.
Feb 1945- Take on Communists prime minister
1947- ‘Free elections ‘

Question 24

Czech?

Answer 24

1945- LW Communists

1948- Remove thoes against communism

Question 25

When was Cominform?

Answer 25

1947

Question 26

As a result of Cominform what happened?

Answer 26

2 million workers in France striker in Winter 1947. Hungary population 5% imprisoned by 1953

Question 27

When was Comeocom?

Answer 27

1949

Question 28

When was Bizonia?

Answer 28

1947

Question 29

What did the allies do in 1948 for Germany?

Answer 29

Introduced new currency, Deutesche Mark Set a German Constituion

Question 30

When was the Berlin Blockade?

Answer 30

June 1948

Question 31

What happened in the Berlin airlift?

Answer 31

70 large cargo planes, carrying 700 tones, and 1000 in few weeks. As of January 1949, 170000 were airlifted supplies

Question 32

When did the Blockade end?

Answer 32

May 1949

Question 33

When was FDR set up?

Answer 33

September 1949, and GDR the month after

Question 34

When was NATO formed?

Answer 34

1949

Question 35

When was the Warsaw Pact formed?

Answer 35

1955

Question 36

When did the US have nuclear bomb?

Answer 36

1945

Question 37

When did the USSR have nuclear bombs?

Answer 37

1949

Question 38

What happened by 1953 for the arms Race?.

Answer 38

Both had hydrogen bombs

Question 39

Russia in 1955 for Armsrsce?

Answer 39

Sakharovs third idea, to equal the power of nuclear arms

Question 40

What happened in 1955 for USA?

Answer 40

B52 Was introduced

Question 41

How many troops did the USSR have?

Answer 41

3 million

Question 42

Who was the leader of Hungary from 1949-56

Answer 42

Rakoski

Question 43

What happened under Rakoski regime?

Answer 43

2k deaths, and 387 imprisoned

Question 44

When was Kruschev secret speech?

Answer 44

1956

Question 45

When did Nagy return to USSR?

Answer 45

1929

Question 46

When did Nagy return to Hungary?

Answer 46

1944

Question 47

When was Nagy made the MoA?

Answer 47

1945

Question 48

When was Nagy excluded from the communist party?

Answer 48

1949

Question 49

When was Nagy prime minister of Hungary?

Answer 49

1953-55

Question 50

When were the Budapest riots?

Answer 50

23 October 1956

Question 51

When did Nagy introduce his reforms?

Answer 51

31 Oct 1956

Question 52

When did Krushev come back to help Kadar?

Answer 52

Nov 4 1956 - 200 k troops and 1k tanks 2.5k killed, 20k wounded, 200k fled

Question 53

What was USA reaction to Hungary?

Answer 53

20million support, and 80k Hungarian refugees